Complete Guide to Bing Webmaster Tool - Submit Your Website to Bing and Yahoo
As earlier an article was created clearing how to submit website and URLs on Google using the Google Search Console webmaster tools.
Here in this article, you will be taken through the guides on submitting website and URLs on Bing Webmaster tools, Getting the website verified and all other things you are supposed to know about the Bing Webmaster which allows the contents of your website to appear on Bing and Yahoo search and thereby increase the daily traffic of your website.
For Wordpress users, you can read how to submit Your Website to Bing Webmaster Tools using Yoast SEO plugins.
Bing and Yahoo are among the most used search engines to be known to the world. While Google takes the lead in search engine industry, as well they should be mentioned!
You might have been keeping in mind "why Bing and Yahoo"? Yes, these two search engines were of seperate functions until an agreement was reached, and it was concluded for them to merge using one algorithm developed by Bing in 2009/2010.
So, this defines that if you submit your site to Bing, automatically your site also is submitted on Yahoo. Moreover, whatever pages are indexed by Bing, the same pages are indexed on Yahoo. Although the SERP interfaces are different, the search results are similar.
How to submit website on Bing Webmaster
Submitting your website on Bing webmaster. Go through the guidelines below and follow carefully to have your website submitted for crawling by Bing:
1. Go to Bing Webmaster Tools homepage. Sign up for a new account to login and if you already have an account you can continue with it.
2. Enter your website's URL in the "Enter your site URL" field as shown below;
If you have a Google Search Console account, you may decide to import the information of your website there to the Bing Webmaster without undergoing any long process. Also you can check how to submit your website on Google Search Console here.
3. Verify your website: Just similar to how you get verified on Google Search Console, you need to let the Bing certify that you are the real owner of the website you are about to submit.
There are three(3) method you can make use of in order to get your website verified on Bing Webmaster Tools, namely;
- XML File upload: this is simarly to the uploading of HTML File on Google Search Console, but this file are of different format. Download the XML File and upload to the root directory of your site.
- Adding HTML meta tag: Here, an HTML meta tag will be given, copy and paste it between the <head> and </head> header tags of your website.
- Adding CNAME record to DNS: Copy the CNAME record as given below, manually add the CNAME record to the Domain Name Server. You can do this using Cloudflare or some other similar platforms.
The easiest method of all is making use of the HTML meta tags, i guess most of Blogspot users are familiar with this. Copy the codes and paste right in the header of your website and get verified in a jiffy.
4. Configure, Optimize and monitor the performance of website: The Bing Webmaster Tools has made available many tools for you to make use to improve the growth of your website by placing it on a better rank in the results of search queries.
As you can see the the image above, navigate through the options provided by the Bing Webmaster Tool and setup the search preference of your website to the most favorite tip.
5. Submit your website Sitemap: Get the XML Sitemap of your website and submit it under the "Sitemap" tab option for a better indexing. Check for tips on generating XML sitemap for Blogger here.
6. URL Submission: This is another function available on the the Bing Webmaster Tool where you can submit each URL address of your pages or post for manual indexing. This functionality is similar to the "Request Indexing" feature on Google Search Console.
Other fuctions such as: Backlinks, Keywords research, SEO reports, Site scan, Robot txt tester and more are also available for use in the Bing Webmaster Tools, all these are put together for proper enhancement and optimizing of your website for the search engine to read all of your contents and place for results in search queries. In short, these will help you grow and fetch more traffic to your website easily!
For more details about the use and submission of website on Bing Webmaster, you can make use of the helpdesk provided by Bing.
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